Representation of Subaltern Voices in Sangraula’s Junkiriko Sangeet

Abstract

This research is the study of subaltern representation and the predicament of being the outcaste and hegemonized in the caste-based society in Khagendra Sangraula’s novel Junkiriko Sangeet. The writer has strongly advocated the need for the subaltern resistance to the neo-colonial European models of education, development, and the forms of entertainment which are exported by Europe so as to maintain the hegemonic relation to the Third World and to deteriorate the subaltern cultures. For this, the writer has used the strategic essentialism underscoring the need of affirming subaltern identity and resisting the class and caste hegemony. The Damais, Kamis and Sarkis and other socially marginalized, voiceless subalterns are led to the subaltern consciousness; from the horrendous circumstances of the poor dalits devouring ‘sino’ or the rotten flesh of dead cattle brought from the house of higher caste Hindu elites to the formation of a united group to protest against the evils of caste system.